Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-17

q MADISON COwLEs, Agt.
Barton
Snow flakes, Wednesday.
John Brooks has been having a
hard run Of fever.
Charles Folsom and Uncle Lewis
Davis have moved to Sheffield.
Selden Foss of Irasburgh will spend
the winter here with Mrs. II. 5. Bick-
ford.
The odd Girls meet with Mrs. F.
Lovewen next Wednesday afternoon.
All invited.
The X. X. company are putting
in new water tank and repairing
the depot platforms.
The ladies of the Cong. society
meet with Mrs. Hamblet on We'd
nesday afternoon next.
1t is expected that Willie Mccain
will commence a series of meetings at
the Methodist church next week.
Everybody interested in having a
Literary Circle in this place during
the winter Is invited to meet at @.
H. Blake's on Tuesday evening next.
+. l. Bartholomew, the piano
tuner, will be in town this week
and anv orders left at \. r. COwles'
music store will receive prompt at
tention.
The st. Johnsbury district Preach
ers' Meeting will be held at Island
Pond. commencing this evening.
holding over Tuesday, and closing
Wednesday.
At the last term of court II. C..
Wilson of Troy, Charles Marston of
Glover. and ;. Il. Fletcher of Hol-
land were appointed road commits
sioners for the county.
Kenneth Smith. who for several
wears has been struggling with con-
sumption. died on Tuesday last. The
Masonic fraternity have dealt very
kindly with him and his family for a
long time.
Orleans county got away with a
very large share of the premiums at
the late horse fair, though the Cal
edonia people had large number of
animals that are a credit to the own
ers and the state.
The Hyde Park butter factory
owners, who have been paying 80
cents n hundred for their milk have
advanced their price to s1.OO. This
is equivalent to - cents pound for
their butter, with no expense for
making or marketing.
II. F. Pierce. the well-known and
popular jockey from Stanstead, re-
Gently received 5000 from an acct
dent insurance company for loss of
time occasioned by broken leg. He
Is on crutches still, but rides his
sulky and handles the reins with
usual skill.
The quarterly conference Of the
NJ. +. church will be held on Satur-
dav evening of this week at the yes
try. All members of the board and
others interested in the work of the
church are requested to be present.
On Sunday there will be love feast
at 91z a. m, followed by sermon
by Rev. =. Donaldson, and the adj
ministration of the sacrament.
Rev. Mr.. Worthen has kindly Of
fered to lecture for the W. w, or
Little Girls society, to help them in
their work of adding new books to
the Sunday School library. The
lecture will be at the NJ. f. church
on Wednesday evening, on the sub
ject, '.Sight Seeing in Palestine.
The lecture will be of great interest,
and the object for which the proceeds
are to be used is a very worthy one.
John Bean of this village has rails
ed two valuable colts from his ETHAN
Allen" mare, one a year old, sired by
..Nutmont." which he has just sold
10 Geo. ii. Fitzgerald of Island Pond
for four hundred dollars. The other,
two-vear-old, s'Allen Wilkes, sir
ed bv .sAbdallah Wilkes" for which
Dir. Fitzgerald offers Mr.. Bean one
thousand dollars any time he chooses
to take it. s.Allen Wilkes" won the
first purse in the two-year-old race
at the county fair, also the first purse
and premium at the Horse Breeders
exhibition, Oct. y.
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Singing schools will be held Oh
Saturday evenings. NJ Nj. 1api'n
leader.